Directed by:
Jon TurteltaubComposer:
Trevor RabinCast:
Nicolas Cage, Justin Bartha, Diane Kruger, Jon Voight, Helen Mirren, Ed Harris, Harvey Keitel, Bruce Greenwood, Ty Burrell, Alicia Coppola, Joel Gretsch (more)VOD (5)
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Nicolas Cage reprises his role as artefact hunter and archaeologist, Ben Franklin Gates. When a missing page from the diary of Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, surfaces, one of Ben's ancestors is implicated as a conspirator in the murder. In an attempt to clear their family's name, Ben and his father, Mitch (Jon Voight), travel the globe in search of the other missing pages from Booth's diary. The journey leads Ben and his crew not only to surprising revelations, but to the trail of the world's most treasured secrets. (Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment)
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Talky, predictable, boring. I don't remember a single minute of the first part, and the second part turns out exactly the same. Nicolas Cage's puzzle-solving skills belong in the Guinness Book of Records. Quite embarrassing considering that this “intelligent” entertainment is aimed at the widest audience possible so that at least some money can be made from this boring, yet expensive-looking story. The most entertaining scene is the one with the president. I highly recommend it to all intellectuals and cynics. There would be plenty of waste, like mushrooms after rain.
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First off, let's look at the academic heroes using the method of association. Indiana Jones: whip and swing. Robert Langdon: words and fat. Ben Gates: boredom and a goat's lip. Secondly, the same breathless melancholy, which receives the second star for the patriotic fun with the president and the stylish bastard Ed Harris. You don’t often hear this much bloated gossip; even Rolko Emmerich would envy it.
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The same old sterile approach a second time round. An incredibly dumb plot, illogical behavior by characters, routineer directing without any scenes that stick in your mind, ridiculous deductions and “dialogs" - all that remained the same. Again it tries to be for the whole family, but fundamentally again for nobody. Perhaps maybe only the wannabe funny helper gets on my nerves much more than last time. And yes, it is equally entertaining as part one was. As movie to relax to, that you forget instantly, this works decently. However, it doesn’t even come close to satisfying those who like adventure and so it just leaves you with the irresistible urge to put on a proper adventure movie. Ideally Indy.
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The Jon Turteltaub crew, led by the radiant Nicolas Cage, bumps up the pace compared to the already solid first installment, rushing towards another treasure and this time even justice. Despite occasional slip-ups in logic, everything happens at such a killer tempo that I couldn't catch my breath. I want to believe that despite years of delay, the Gates family will make it to a third installment.
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A repeated joke is no longer funny, or leave this treasure alone already! It's true that it's a cute Hollywood, star-studded mystery adventure that fortunately doesn't take itself too seriously and works more than satisfactorily as unpretentious visual entertainment despite its excessive runtime, but there's not a single reason to grant its limited filmmaking qualities with a fourth star and thus make it a work worthy of recommendation and praise in my books... Harmless and inoffensive, but still a barely ambitious average. ;) 60%
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